Does anybody have any experience with Telepacific's Fixed Wireless connections? We're at a point where we need a faster Internet connection because my boss wants to use a VPN, but we're limited on wired connections. Best we can get is a DSL with 768kbps up, or T1 1.5Mbps Down and Up. Telepacific offers Fixed Wireless from 1.5, 3, 6, 10, 20, 40, 50, 100 Mbps speeds. Obviously prices get crazy in the high speed connections, since they charge close to T1 prices for 6Mbps speed. This is also Up and Down speed. I heard some horror stories from employees here at work and from people online about their T1 lines, but there is not much info about their fixed wireless. We're in the Ventura County (close to LA) area. Apparently they have a tower in our city too, and we're pretty flat land wise and calm/dry weather wise.

Also, if we're considering VPN, would 6Mbps Up/Down be fine for using a software that accesses our database for basic queries about customer information, and other job process queries? Also, we might use some PDFs over the network. Some roughly 4MB in size, while most are around 1-2MB or lower. My boss is hesitant to go with some Ubiquity AirFiber antennas to connect two buildings roughly 500 feet away, so he'd rather go over the Internet through VPN. Any suggestions? Thanks guys!

Edit: Sorry, meant to say that we're going to have roughly 10-15 users in one building, and about 10 users in 2nd building, but we'll have the server on the side that has the most users.

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He is willing to go with a wireless solution for bandwidth but not for connecting the buildings? Or better yet he is willing to go wireless to connect the vpn from 2 different buildings but not directly via wireless. Do yourself a favor and spend the money on a professional installer for the airfiber. As far as internet, if you need the speeds, use this company as an internet connection but have yourself a backup. Fixed wireless is not going to have the reliability of a T1 connection so use a slower speed DSL as a backup to it. I say that with some experience too. I was the Senior Network Administrator for the largst WISP in the nation and I worked in the wireless world for over 5 years.

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We went with the Fixed Wireless 6Mbps Up/Down and we have not had any major problems yet. There was a day when our connection was not working, but it was just a matter of turning off the antenna and turning it back on again. It was up and running within 2-3 min again.

We have a T1 line for our phone lines and that has been working well so far as well.

T1 for us would have been slow for an Internet connection, which is why we made the fixed wireless our main Internet connection.

If you have any other questions, please let me know and I'll be happy to answer it for you.

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Wondering how this worked out for you, pkapas1991 ? We are looking at Telepacific too, for a T1 with the fixed-wireless as a backup. We'd appreciate any feedback you can share.

HI Judy, we are a Telecom master agency and partnered with Telepacific (and 100 other providers). Fixed wireless is an excellent solution especially when paired with a wired dedicated circuit as you have it quoted now. Telepacific is very strong in certain markets (CA, TX primarily) but usually that means there are ton of other choices to consider from both a price and service perspective.

Let me know if you would like a complete view of the market before you sign on the dotted line. We also have access to preferred, negotiated pricing better than going to the carriers directly so can probably get you the same circuit quoted with TP for less. PM me if you would like our help.

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